Award-winning recruitment consulting firm Monroe Consulting is collaborating with a prominent client in the FinTech sector part for a conglomerate group, to onboard a VP of Product. This role is responsible for the overall product strategy and vision of the company. This role requires a strong leader who can drive product development, design, and innovation while aligning with the company's business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Defining and communicating the product vision, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Team Management: Leading and developing the product and design teams, fostering a culture of excellence.
- Operational Excellence: Optimizing product and design processes for efficiency and quality.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborating with C-suite and other departments to ensure product alignment.
- Product Design Oversight: Ensuring user-centric design and continuous improvement.
- Market Analysis: Conducting market research to identify opportunities and competitive advantages.
- Performance Management: Defining and tracking KPIs to measure product success.
- Innovation and R&D: Encourage and foster an environment of innovation within the product and design teams. Approve and oversee pilot projects, prototypes, and exploratory initiatives that could lead to new product opportunities or enhancements.
- Infrastructure and Cloud Management: This leadership role spearheads the company's transition to the cloud by directing the adoption of modern infrastructure tools, overseeing the migration, management, and scaling of cloud environments for flexibility and resilience, and collaborating with engineering and operations to ensure a cloud strategy aligned with product and business goals.
- Risk Management: Work closely with legal, compliance, and security teams to ensure all products adhere to regulatory standards and company policies.
- Cybersecurity Oversight: Work closely with cybersecurity teams to integrate security measures at every step of the product development lifecycle. Oversee vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and security audits of products, ensuring timely remediation of any identified issues.
- Software Engineering Leadership: Provide oversight on software engineering practices, ensuring they adhere to the highest standards and utilize best-in-class methodologies.
- Resource Management: Overseeing budget and resource allocation for product and design teams.
In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, a typical VP of Product role requires a strong combination of leadership, strategic thinking, and technical expertise.
Key Requirements:
- Proven Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire high-performing product teams.
- Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical and strategic planning skills to develop and execute product roadmaps.
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of the fintech industry and business operations.
- Technical Proficiency: Experience in multiple software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, and Kanban). Familiarity with microservices architecture, containerization technologies, and API-first design. In-depth knowledge of modern infrastructure management, including virtualization, orchestration, and automation. Expertise in major cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, with hands-on experience in deploying and managing large-scale environments. Understanding Infrastructure as Code and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes. Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles as they apply to product development.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Proficiency in using data and analytics to inform product decisions.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and presentation skills to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Customer Focus: Passion for understanding customer needs and delivering exceptional user experiences.
- Problem-Solving: Ability to identify and solve complex problems.
- Change Management: Experience leading organizational change and driving innovation.
Typical Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in business, engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in product management or related roles.
- Proven track record of successful product launches and growth.
- Experience in the fintech industry is preferred.
By combining these requirements with the previously mentioned responsibilities, a VP of Product is expected to be a visionary leader who can drive product innovation and contribute significantly to the company's overall success.
